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I would suggest the last five, even ten years have been a game changer when it comes to media influence.

People get their news feed online and through social media nowadays. And they often favour feeds that chime with their own views, which just reinforces silo-thinking.

You only need to look on here, where Twitter and blog links get posted as if they were fact. That’s not to say the traditional newspapers didn’t have their own biases but they don’t have the power and influence they did in years gone by. The Internet means people can find something that validates their own beliefs and then quote it as fact or gospel. And that is true for all shades of the political spectrum.
You may well have hit upon an important issue here. I don't do social media, meaning I'm spared the barrage it brings. You may well be right that many people, more than ever before, only read opinions that offer confirmation bias. I'm sceptical about the veracity of this so called 'anti-establishment era'.
I think we live in more conformist times than ever in terms of what constitutes a fulfilling life and a good society, namely a predominant belief that the accumulation of money and material possessions is the highest priority and the way to a happy life. Forty years of the neoliberal agenda has had an enormous impact, in my opinion, and I don't think the Labour governments of 1945 and 1964, for example, could get elected today.